A preliminary declaration of sustainability ethics
Making peace with the ultimate bioexecutioner
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12858237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J CAIRNS (0000-0002-2706-3517, Virginia Tech, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Pages | 43-48 |
| Publication date | 2003-05-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1611-8014 • E-ISSN: 1863-5415 |
| Publisher | I nt er-R es ea rc h (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.3354/esep003043 |
| OpenAlex | W2314553487 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
Important similarities are present in the concepts of eco-ethics (Kinne 2003) and sustainability ethics. Both focus intently upon the ethical relationship between humankind and natural systems. Both deplore the folly of humankind's present unsustainable course, which includes exhausting the planet's nonrenewable resources such as fossil fuels, water, and minerals. Both deplore the over-harvesting of renewable resources such as oceanic fisheries and old growth forests. Both agree that global environmental quality is being degraded by automobile emissions, pesticides, nuclear wastes, greenhouse gases, chlorofluorocarbons, and the like, which produce such environmental responses as biotic impoverishment (i.e. species extinction), global warming, and acid rain. Both are deeply concerned about the exponentially growing human population; increased per capita affluence, as measured by consumption of material goods; and the increasing disparity in per capita distribution of the planet's resources
Declaration · Environmental ethics · Political science · Sustainability · Academic Research and Education Studies · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · Law · Philosophy · Public Administration · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy · Ecology
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
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| Citation span | 2004 - 2019 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |